I like fallacies …
the mistakes that men make … why …
was I against it
Adapted from the passage in the book, The Etiquette of Freedom and The Practice of the Wild by Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison (Counterpoint: Brooklyn, NY, 2016) where Mr. Snyder writes:
I like fallacies, the mistakes that men make.
For seventeen years, I had an open firepit in the center of my house.
The smoke was supposed to go out an opening in the gables, but a lot of the time it didn’t.
I was trying to live like I was in a Japanese farmhouse.
I even had a hook for the pot over the firepit.
But, you know, it takes a long time to realize certain things, and I realized, yeah, the stovepipe was a good invention.
So finally I boarded it over and started living with chairs and a table, like Americans do.
It’s like a friend of mine who did without electricity for fifteen years, and when he finally connected up to an electric line, he said to me, “You know, I can’t even remember why I was against it.”
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